When did people in this country develop a reasonable expectation of privacy over what they do in public? Until recently, at least, such a right did not exist.
No better pronouncement of this legal precept can be found than this seemingly all-encompassing quote from a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision, when it baldly stated, “[w]hat a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not subject to Fourth Amendment protection.”1 Not much evidence of equivocation there.
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